Oct 03 : "New Town" - The Rungs (Brooklyn)

New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (May 2018)

JOURNAL OF THE MONTH

Suppose you could do a "re-start", to go to a new place and start out completely fresh, and leave behind all the old stuff that you'd just as soon forget. It takes strength to make such a move, but you could do it!

That was the question posed to the audience as Mandy of The Rungs opened up the evening at Bowery Electric last Thursday. And that's the theme of The Rungs' song, "New Town", which was the first song they played that night. Throughout the show, Mandy sprinkled in little stories and anecdotes between each song. Very engaged with the audience, talking to us like we had been her close friends for years! Stage presence definitely a few notches above lots of the rest!

I liked the band's show at Bowery Electric, but it was a thinned-down acoustic version of their music. But listen as the Brooklyn three-piece plays a more full-bodied version of "New Town". This is on the first track on their May, 2018 album "Mandy's Song Journal" :::

So what's "Mandy's Song Journal"? A very interesting concept, for one thing. Mandy explained that, partly as a manner of self-discipline, she decided to write at least one song a month and keep it in a song journal. Here is her online description of it :::
In May I decided to start a creative challenge for myself by committing to write and record a song, or demo, each month. I’ve titled this project my ‘Song Journal’ because sharing these rougher demos feels like opening up a journal. Home to the b-sides, the experiments, and the explorations outside of my comfort zone, the journal tunes are currently available to stream on Youtube and purchase on Bandcamp.

Thank you for listening,

❤

Mandy

If you would like to see more of the song journal, here is the click ::: Mandy's Song Journal (CLICK HERE). ... The Rungs don't have any other show coming up in the next few weeks, but here is the click to their Facebook page, where you can keep an eye on what they're doing::: The Rungs on Facebook (CLICK HERE).